It has been a while since Facebook announced changes to their API , including the introduction of new customisable open graph actions. Probably most famous example being The Guardian app publishing : “Mike Nolan is reading : “How to grow a dandelion” article on Guardian. Or some other user “Is listening to Depeche Mode” on Spotify. While you can get plenty of tutorials on how to achieve this in HTML / PHP I haven’t been able to found any on how to do this in Flash. It might be that my googling skills are diminishing, or the fact that you actually can’t do this PURELY in flash. Why ? In a similar way the “share” functionality works , for this to work properly, Facebook must read html metadata from your page, and use them to construct the ticker update. You can however trigger publishing the action from flash and with a bit of php magic link deeplink from the published action on ticker back to your app. Here’s how: Read the rest of this entry »